Al Gore Forecasted “Ice-Free” Arctic by 2013; Ice Cover Expands 50%

Although "global warming” guru Al Gore warned the North Pole would be "ice-free" by 2013 from alleged man-made global warming, its ice cover has expanded 50%.

Self-styled “global-warming” guru Al Gore (shown in photo) and a gaggle of supposed “climate scientists” have egg all over their faces — big time. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, Gore publicly and very hysterically warned that the North Pole would be “ice-free” by around 2013 because of alleged “man-made global warming.” Citing “climate” experts, the government-funded BBC hyped the mass hysteria, running a now-embarrassing article under the headline: “Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’.” Other establishment media outlets did the same.

Well, 2013 is almost over, and contrary to the alarmist “predictions” by Gore and what critics refer to as his “doomsday cult,” the latest satellite data show that Arctic ice cover has actually expanded 50 percent over 2012 levels. In fact, during October, sea-ice levels grew at the fastest pace since records began in 1979. Experts predict the expansion to continue in the years to come, leaving global-warming alarmists scrambling fiendishly for explanations to save face — and to revive the rapidly melting climate hysteria.

According to the dubious theories and predictions advanced by Al Gore and other alarmists, though, none of this should be happening. “Some of the models ... suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years,” Gore claimed in 2009 at a UN “climate” summit in Copenhagen. “We will find out.” Indeed, the bogus prediction was wildly off the mark, to put it mildly, but the establishment press and Gore apparently do not want the world to find out.

Separately, speaking to an audience in Germany five years ago, Gore — sometimes ridiculed as “The Goracle” — also alleged that “the entire North Polarized [sic] cap will disappear in 5 years.” While the original video of that particular failed prediction appears to have been scrubbed from the Internet, conservative bloggers managed to track down the same footage from other sources. “Five years,” Gore emphasized again, is “the period of time during which it is now expected to disappear.”

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